How did Bucky Barnes survive in Ed Brubaker’s Captain America storyline?

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Chris Evans as Captain America stands in costume holding his shield, with an American flag and sunlight in the background. — Captain America Chris Evans as the title character in *Captain America: The First Avenger* (2011), directed by Joe Johnston.

In Ed Brubaker’s storyline, it is revealed that Bucky Barnes survived the explosion at the end of World War II, though he lost an arm in the process. His unconscious body was recovered by the Soviets, who replaced his missing limb with a bionic one and brainwashed him into becoming an assassin known as the Winter Soldier. To maintain his youth, he was kept in suspended animation between his missions.1